{"id":64477,"date":"2015-09-11T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=64477"},"modified":"2015-09-11T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:09:52","slug":"new-york-public-school-selects-freshgrade-for-student-pilot","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/new-york-public-school-selects-freshgrade-for-student-pilot","title":{"rendered":"New York Public School Selects FreshGrade for Student Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5692\/21138965640_4dee2b20ac_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"208\" \/>After a formal review process, the New York Department of Education&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/izonenyc.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">iZone<\/a> has selected FreshGrade to evaluate personalized digital portfolios.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The project kicked off this week and is being led by Bronx International High School. If successful, the Kelowna-based education company&#8217;s technology could be made available for wider adoption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A student&#8217;s learning journey requires continuous support and resources, even in the most prosperous of situations,&#8221; says FreshGrade COO Chris Besse. &#8220;The added challenges of entering a new culture and working through language barriers, makes the need for visibility and engagement in the learning process that much more important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The platform acts as a connection point to support teachers, engage parents and empower students to bring more visibility and real-time interaction to the process of learning.<\/p>\n<p>FreshGrade allows teachers to capture, document and communicate learning in a personalized manner. Students can document their own learning, make self-reflections, upload assignments and receive personalized feedback from their teachers and\/or parents.<\/p>\n<p>FreshGrade was founded in 2011 by Lane Merrifield, Steve Wandler and Mark Payne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a formal review process, the New York Department of Education&#8217;s iZone has selected FreshGrade to evaluate personalized digital portfolios. The project kicked off this week and is being led by Bronx International High School. If successful, the Kelowna-based education company&#8217;s technology could be made available for wider adoption. &#8220;A student&#8217;s learning journey requires continuous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":64479,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-64477","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/64477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/64477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64477"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=64477"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=64477"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=64477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}